Chris Benoit dead in murder-suicide

June 26th, 2007 // 186 Comments
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WWE wrestling superstar Chris Benoit was found dead along with his wife and 7-year-old son in what police believe was a murder-suicide. Benoit and his wife and son were discovered Monday afternoon in their Atlanta home. TMZ reports:

Several Atlanta-based law enforcement sources have told TMZ Benoit may have strangled his wife on Saturday, then smothered his son in his bed a day later. Investigators refuse to officially comment, pending final confirmation by the coroner on the cause and time of the deaths. One source told TMZ that Benoit was texting friends during Sunday’s WWE “Vengeance” Pay-Per-View program — possibly watching the show with his son, who may have been alive at the time. According to sources, Benoit then hanged himself Monday in a weight room inside the family home.

So, uh, yeah. Did you hear? Paris Hilton got out.


  1. Yoyoyo

    Hmmm

  2. Phil

    omg….

  3. Phil

    damn i thought i might have had a first.

    HI SARAH IF YOURE LOOKING LAWL

  4. trackstar

    roidrage?

  5. bignosejew

    thats very sad i wonder how old the son was

    i bet this guy was a fuckin jew i wouldnt doubt it only a jew would do something like this

  6. JennaJamesonIsASkank

    Fucking pussy…

    Should have just offed himself but he has to kill a woman and child too… Dark, hot spots in hell await fuckers like this….

    He could have at least killed Paris Hilton… Then he would be a hero. Can you imagine? Body slam!! Shatter!

  7. JCS

    #5 – awesome.

  8. THAT’S FUCKED UP! HE WAS SELFISH AS SHIT! That just goes to show you, that anything can happen….famous people, can wig the fuck out, at anytime! REST IN HELL, chris!

  9. sulee

    Hey superfish,

    You want to take credit for this over the Paris picture?

  10. cross face

    no more cross faced crippler? or flying head butt off the top rope? who will battle Chris Jericho?? Noooooooooo!!!!!!!

  11. Way To Go Superfish

    um yeah, I heard about this 6 hours ago. Way to stay on top of things super fish.

  12. no1justminda

    Suicide is selfish enough as it is, but when you take other people down with you (ESPECIALLY CHILDREN!), that’s just despicable! Makes my blood boil!

  13. jrzmommy

    What a shame he had to take the wife and kid out with him…….if it weren’t for those two dying this story would’ve made me happy.

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  15. Silo333

    How sad. Some kid loses his life because he had the misfortune of being born to a big dumb shit-for-brains.

  16. Erin

    jesus

    I love how you go from britneys boobs to this

  17. Mile

    I read that the text messages he was sending were strange/crazy and that’s what prompted his friends to get in touch with the cops and have them check up on him.

    Also, the WWF or whatever it’s called canceled their show on Monday and instead had a tribute to this guy aired. What were they thinking? That he was killed and not the killer??

  18. bungoone

    the worst part is that the WWE aired a 3 hour tribute to this guy. a tribute for a murderer, nice. what a bunch of fucktards.

  19. wedgeone

    Man – whatever possesses someone to do this? I know that he had some “anger management” issues before, but wow! He was never big enough to be suspected of steroids. Maybe too many flying head butts made him unstable.

    First Eddie Guererro and now Chris Benoit. Perry Saturn & Dean Malenko better get counseling and soon. Two of the four Radicalz are history now!

    RIP Chris and his family.

  20. Ugh

    @6
    Read the fucking post shit-for-brains. Look it’s up there. It’s the thing you’re commenting on.

  21. Einsteinbrain

    Fucked up on STERIODS … what a loser

  22. bungoone

    sorry 20, i think we posted at the same time.

  23. saltpeanuts

    Murder-suicide. Steroids’ll do that to ya. Poor fricken kid.

  24. BSfan

    Screw TMZ. I refuse to believe that’s how it happened.

    TO those of you who are making jokes you should all feel ashamed of yourselves.

    Don’t think I’m one of those super righteous jackasses that jus hate everything your write. I’m all for the Paris bashing. I’m all for torching Britney, and I could careless whether you call Kelly Clarkson fat or not, but when death is involved you’d think you could have a little more self respect.

    I think you need to realize, the man had everything going for him. He was about to win the ECW World Championship. He had no reason to kill. And if he did than his death should be looked upon as a great tragedy. He was a great man once. He was a hero to some people. My personal opinion is roid rage, and then his death should be seen as a lesson against taking steroids.

    And even if you don’t feel any sympathy toward Benoit, which is understandable, at least have some for his wife and kid.

    At least treat them with the respect and dignity they deserve, and quit it with the jokes.

  25. wedgeone

    Also, #6 – take your crazy Jew-hating talk over to Howard Stern’s blog, OK? Your racism makes absolutely no sense here. How could he be a Jew with the last name of “Benoit”? He was Canadian, you idiot!

  26. metahari

    I don’t really know who this guy is, but I heard that the wife killed the kid, he snapped, then killed her and himself.

  27. The Devil's Prom Date

    @29 great handle

  28. bungoone

    27, it’s not like TMZ is the only one reporting this. If he killed, the only tragedy is the one that occured when he killed his wife & son, not because he killed himself. The guy is a murderer.

    Additionally, it’s sad that he was someone’s hero. Unless he did humanitarian things, he was an actor when all is said & done. That’s no reason for someone to hero worship him.

  29. Nikk

    @27.

    Thank you.

    Seriously.

    Please bash Paris all you want. Slam Lindsay Lohan. Show a little fucking respect for Benoit.

    They still don’t know EXACTLY what happened….so don’t pass judgement on him yet.

  30. Nikk

    @31.

    Actually, he’s done some charity stuff….Make-A-Wish, etc…etc. Yeah, he didn’t cure cancer or anything, but he’s done more in his life than 99% of the plebians on this website have done.

    And in retrospect, look at who his employer was. Seriously. Working for that fucker would drive ANYONE out of their head.

  31. bungoone

    33, yeah i’m sure he’s done stuff like that, who doesn’t. but c’mon, people wants us to show some respect for the guy? they’re pretty much sure they know what happened & are awaiting the autopsies. If they didn’t have a clue, they wouldn’t release a statement saying it was a murder-suicide. so, sorry, i have no respect for this guy because i have no doubt that he killed his wife & son. i guess we shall see though.

  32. The Devil's Prom Date

    Yeah, if it went down the way they’re speculating, then there’d be no hell assrape-y enough.

    But I’m gonna reserve my judgement. I wanna beleive there’s more to this story.

  33. Dow

    I wish Chris would have killed Paris Hilton instead.

  34. JennaJamesonIsASkank

    #27 – Rest assured that Benoit is sucking a mile of cock in hell as we speak…

    Feel free to help yourself to some cock as well you fucktard… So far, no one has said anything other than this piece of shit is a piece of shit and the loss of his family is a tragedy. However, losing HIM is no tragedy. It doesn’t matter what excuse you want to give, killing women and children is just cowardly and downright disgusting.

    Don’t make excuses or you are an enabler.

  35. EZE

    wy crhis man that some shit hhe did not suicide i cant belive it omg

  36. JennaJamesonIsASkank

    Roid rage doesn’t wash BTW. The reports state that he killed the wife on one day and the kid on another… That is just cold blooded MURDER.

  37. Nikk

    Let the coroner release a report before you start condemning him.

    Either way, I’m gonna go look at those Kim Kardashian pics. See how many sofa cushions she stuck on her butt today.

  38. meh

    you people sicken me. 2 innocent people are murdered here and people are making stupid jokes. and this asshole got a 3 hour tribute on national tv. what scum. this nation idiolizes worthless trash ie. paris hilton and various others

  39. Sensitive Man

    @27

    Hey, I agree with most everything you said here. Respect for the dead, the senseless tragedy of the kid’s death, etc. But, ‘He was about to win the ECW World Championship’ is about as important as ‘Dr. burke was about to marry Christina on Grey’s Anatomy.’ You don’t ‘WIN’ a wrestling chanpionship.. the script calls for you to be the winner.

    Just turns out this guy was a loser, no matter what.

  40. jrzmommy

    “He was about to win the ECW World Championship.” OOOOOOOH!!! The Grand Poobah of Fake Fighting.

  41. snooky

    Damn. If it was anything but a psychotic break, I’ll be shocked.

  42. So sorry for the families of these people.

    That’s what I hate about men, they’re
    stronger than us and if they want to kill
    us, they can, but somehow, I’ll be willing
    to bet that a doctor is behind this..
    They are the real drug dealers.

  43. Superfish

    I know i might sound like a girl, but my thoughts go out to his family and they’re in my prayers.

    now im not one to wish death on people, but i mean could him and Paris Hilton switch places? cause seeing this bitch over the news is making me puke over and over and over…

  44. theoriginalmilf

    I’d like to know what was in those last text messages Benoit sent to friends. And I’m curious to find out what comes out in the tox reports.

    Some other wrestlers, yeah I could see this shit happening, but Benoit killing his wife and kid? This is hard to swallow. I hope investigators aren’t jumping the gun and pinning the deaths on Benoit before they’ve had a chance to thoroughly check out the crime scene.

  45. jrzmommy

    “I’d like to know what was in those last text messages Benoit sent to friends. And I’m curious to find out what comes out in the tox reports.”
    Okay, Quincy, M.E.

  46. bungoone

    47, do you know him personally? just wondering because the person you see on tv is a character. you know that, right?

    and who cares if he was hopped up on drugs, he still killed them. doesn’t make him less of a murderer.

  47. Wanky

    wow this is crazy!! ive met him before at a monstertruck rally here in arkansas!! really nice guy…had a strong handshake lol

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